During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

GOD SAYS

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.