Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

People seek light in the external darkness Not knowing that the Light is within.Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you.

Serving others is the surest and practical way of channeling your love. There is no love through lip service. If you love humanity, serve…

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.