Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.