Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?

Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.