I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.