Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

A true success is when you become a reason for a Smile on their face.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.