国家有贤德之士而不任用，不是贤德之士的过失，而应该是拥有这个国家的君主的羞耻。

保持好奇心，保持对世界的好奇心。

真正的艺术家通过揭示神秘真相来帮助世界。

The future of democracy depends on the ability of democratic societies to reform themselves and adapt to new challenges.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people want to see something else.

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.