History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.

And weed's not a drug - that's denial

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.