Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.