Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.