I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.