The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.

A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.

Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

We are required to forgive everyone.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.