Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

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.

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

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?

So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.