The universe is a great mystery.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.