Alchemy is a KIND of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a WAY of understanding.

I look at my little girl and I WONDER what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain DIRECTIONS in LIFE. I think a lot of that goes BACK to what kind of FATHER they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only LEADS to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it MAKES your lobes do something on their own. So HUMOR is very important to me. I always TAKE that to the STAGE first.

When I WATCH a SHOW, and it's only six white dudes that are the LEADS, and I'm just SUPPOSED to be INTERESTED and relate somehow, that's just not that interesting to me.

Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in a HALFWAY coherent form for a COURSE. That has led me to ideas in RESEARCH. Even freshman physics leads to thoughts that lead to other thoughts that are stimulating.

A PHILOSOPHER GOES where the truth LEADS and has no patience with MERE emotion.

I am a fitness lover; I BELIEVE a healthy BODY LEADS to a healthy mind and that's why I believe in being regular with EXERCISE every day.

If you GO down through the HORIZON of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that LEADS you to some other PLACE in the UNIVERSE.

I used my MOTHER's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the SPEAKING PART, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the SOUND would COME out of the speaker.

To me VIOLENCE, once you've done one violent act it leads to ANOTHER, it leads to another, it leads to another, it BECOMES routine.