Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

Knowledge without understanding is a great loss because it is akin to having given a device without the manual on how to operate or use it.

Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

Make subtlety obvious.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.