Honor is decency without vanity.

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.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.