Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

There is no college for the conscience.

Maybe it's me. Maybe I don't know how to have fun.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward.

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.