A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

Killing time is not an easy job.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.