But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.