The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.

End of the SummerIt was end of the summerAnd my heart was brokenbut i was smiling, laughing, making jokesLike there was nothing bleeding insideAs always.

Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.