If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving

Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication… the first is the buzz

The earth laughs in flowers.

I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.