I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.

It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Laughter is the best medicine.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup. Whenever you're wrong, admit it. Whenever you're right, shut up.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

It is bounden duty to perform the will of a dying man.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.