The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.