Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.

When you want really big money you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

Success is one thing, impact is another

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.