Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.

If money controls our life, the devil will come into our life also to control that.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.