It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

We make our purpose.

No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...

Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.

People know I was the last true champion.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.