The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Today is important only in light of what we do for God.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.