Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

To read is to renew thy mind.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.