This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.

Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

O, call back yesterday, bid time return