Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

To live in peace, love peace.

In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.

Laughter is the best medicine

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.