“Why do we remember the past, but not the future?”

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A person who smiles in the face of adversity, probably has a scapegoat.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

I’m really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

The meaning in life is not out there but in between our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

There is no unique picture of reality.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Your dark times will show you who can never be your light.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.