The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

If you listen to music every day, you will be happy.

What exactly is it you want?

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.