Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Don't say you miss me when it's your fault I'm gone!

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)