..the happy hum of humanity.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.