"The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music."

“Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.”

“We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.”

“Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.”

“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,”

Source : "The Confession: City business has been eclipsed by Rob Ford's attempt to avoid embarrassment". www.ctvnews.ca. November 9, 2013.

“We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.”

“Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.”

“My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.”

“The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.”