I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won?

Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.