This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

Tobacco surely was designed to poison, and destroy mankind.

Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other words, I look for aliens, and when I tell people that at a cocktail party, they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face. I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

Now is now. There is nothing but now... This, right here, is all there is.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Every aspect of my being was challenged: my self-worth, my femininity, my profession, my marriage, my faith.

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

When you're on top, you're on top.

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

All I can say is it's improper to criticize someone 30 years later.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.