All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

God, I wish you could have been there.

Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.