1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

If children have interests, then education happens.

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

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.