No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.