I didn't grow up a theatre kid going to theatre camps. I played sports and that was my main direction. But luckily I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I remember when I was a little kid I was good at sports and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead but the work of science continues.

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

Thence results for science as well as for industry the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.