If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved...

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.