A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.