No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.