A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

All men are children, and of one family.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day