Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

If we give the supply of growth, self-improvement, self-education, into our lives, life would favour us

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.