When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

For chocolate's sake!

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.