Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

Never assume the obvious is true.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Music is an experience, not a science.

Kill one and you might as well kill 21.

Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet