For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

Science is theology for an atheist

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.