I am not a televangelist.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

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

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.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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

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

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

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

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

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

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

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

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.