My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.