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

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.

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

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.

Addressing the interests of the audience, results in effective communication.

We all find means of anesthesia.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.