Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

People want to believe.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.