The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.