Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

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

Pakistan is not a unified country.

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

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

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.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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

America is the greatest country in the world.

Study men, not historians.

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

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

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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