It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

There is no country on earth which does need no revolution!

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.