As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it