Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us but rather it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

When it comes to war we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

At home in L.A. Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

People are roasting each other at parties at work events around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops and it's a sign of affection truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom democracy and the United States.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

If the events of September 11 2001 have proven anything it's that the terrorists can attack us but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom our liberty our civil rights. No only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

This June I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen Colorado. For many years my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years my daughter Claudine has been my cooking partner on stage.

Back in 1983 the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct your life will be safe expedient and thin.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.