It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

We hope for what we want.

Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to impart the life of the gospel without telling a person that he or she is dead.

True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.