What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

That's progress: when we prove things wrong.

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Hi, well soon return you to the dyslexic production of Bitty Bitty Chang Chang.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!