I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.