In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

تعرفون اني لم أكن ملاكا طيلة الوقت, و أن الخلافات كانت تحدث من حيت لآخر, لكن لو نظرت للصورة الإجمالية من بعيد -حين تختفي البقع السوداء الصغيرةلأدركت اننا سعيدين حقا ..

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.