The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

If you judge, investigate.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Study men, not historians.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

History should be written as philosophy.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.