People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.