The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Flowers represent hope for us

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.