The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

She was broken. She was useless. She was the pointless half of a friendship. The one who would live forever in shadows, no matter what she did. No matter whom she fought.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.