The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously!

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

I don't expect to be understood at all.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.