If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Each soul is potentially divine.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.