the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Human for love and things for use But now days people use humans and love things

Success is simply a state of mind.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.