The admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.