There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

Listening

Many have rehashed the great works of Plato, and coming forward to the 20th century even Napoleon Hill gave us rehashed woo-woo when he replicated Wallace D. Wattles.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.