Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I really need you here with me boy were going Round-and Round!

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.