One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.