I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Next to music, beer was best.

A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.