The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

I devote my sacred life to the service of humanity.

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.