Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.