You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.