I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scaredOf people who aren't like them, I think that's weird.

No social stability without individual stability.

There’s nothing wrong with an adult being a child, except whining like one.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

You can never have enough talent.