In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent

I love cheetahs. Every moment of every day is spent in fear of dying a terrible death yet they always carry themselves elegantly, remain loyal to their family, and never complain about anything.

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.