To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

With heightened senses it remained motionless and looked through bulbous eyes. It could taste fear in the air. Pheromones. Sweat. Food was near, but more importantly, so was its new home.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die

It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.