[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.

Sound soul

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

The threat of a world war is no more.

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip