People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Trust is a good business practice.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

We have tried to run from our love, but our souls crave this magic.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

And here is our girl, looking-- If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

I can concentrate on my art.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.