Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Write as though your life depended on it.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.