Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

Everything God does is love -even when we do not understand Him.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.