I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Evil forges a tornado. But goodness battles in a straight line.
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
