The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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.

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.