In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Each soul is potentially divine.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

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

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.