“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn’t happen.

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.