Quotes from Steve Allen

Do I ever get questions that are rude or impertinent? Yes, but I love to use them. The audience immediately perceives the emotional awkwardness of the situation.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were aware of our own abilities, we had become practiced at laughing more than other children in our social circle.

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be inclined to treat it as a proper object of ridicule.

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.

I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, 'What's all the excitement about? He doesn't seem funny to me.'

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

La mente es tu propio palacio y puede hacer un infierno del cielo o un cielo del infierno" – John Milton, El paraíso perdido.

La importancia de las creencias radica en que la mayoría de tus recuerdos fueron fabricados por tu mente para ajustarse a lo que piensas que sucedió.

La mentalidad de crecimiento genera la creencia optimista de que puedes lograr casi cualquier cosa si inviertes el suficiente trabajo y tiempo.

actuar como "abogado del diablo". Este método es ideal para comprobar la fortaleza de nuestro razonamiento e identificar sus principales debilidades.

Una manera de recordar quién eres es recordar quiénes son tus héroes. STEVE JOBS, CO FUNDADOR DE APPLE INC.