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“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
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“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”
Source : "Address to the Holy Father". "The cultural values of science", The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Scripta Varia 105, page xiv, November 8-11, 2002.
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“You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.”
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“I don't think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat.”
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“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’”
Source : Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press
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“At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.”
Source : "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012. 
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“I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.”
Source : "Becoming Pony Boi". Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.
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“Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.”
