Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail

The day I started fearing regret is the day I decided to never stop.

Stop asking, start doing.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.