We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

Did the concept of God evolve from our awe for aliens?

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others have not been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

Perfection spells stagnation.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success

The reins of the world are slipping into the hands of delinquents.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.