Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Arvandus!" I tried again to reach him. "You can come back now. I'm alone and would love to argue with you again.

My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.