Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.