You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.