It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.