Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.

Just love, just feel the love, longing for love, nothing else matters.

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.