I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

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.

Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away.

Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

I only know how little I know

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.