Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.

Sanders is to blame for my loss, along with Obama and Biden. They never really supported me because I'm a woman. They're all deplorables, just like every registered Republican in America.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

If you ask that question again ma'am, I will have to ask you your age

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.