History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Don't date a woman without cable (no cable, no SportsCenter).