Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.

By the power of God, everything came into existence.

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.