If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."