Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

Shut up... or I'll kill you.

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.