The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Earth is our only citadel in the universe

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

Let the end and the means be joined into one.