I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

You may control people physically by force, but you won’t change their hearts and minds—that requires trust and friendship.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.