“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.”

“Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little”

“Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way”

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

“Our courage and our resolve will be tested. And so too will our imagination. Because our world is changing. And if we are prepared to imagine and to shape it in new ways, we will find ourselves stronger, more free - a better, closer community.”

“Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.”

“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”

“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”

“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”