A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.