Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.

Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

I have no plan except to take care of the people I love.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.