If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Failure is not the end

May you have a joyful and grateful spirit.

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Completeness is rare in history.

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.