The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

We create our fate every day we live.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

I don't care if I'm not your first. All I want is to be your last!

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

'I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again so is life.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

The bar raises as you go.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.