If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I cannot quit your love without dying.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).