Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.