Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.