I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

You can only accomplish extraordinary things by involving excellent people who can do things that you cannot.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Reliability is the greatest greatness.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, in a strange way. That's what you got when you worked hard.

When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

A childish mind griped to unexpected changes.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

Theres a moment in fighting when strength of muscle aint everything because the enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.