No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Conservatives say a lot about wanting the government stay out of our lives and businesses. We need to make sure the government stays out of our uteruses.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.