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Quotes by Author
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
73
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
73
"In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors."
73
"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."
72
"The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life."
72
"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood."
72
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
72
"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race."
71
"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
71
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
71
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
71
"You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?"
71
"Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf."
70
"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
70
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
70
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
70
"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser, of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."
70
"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
70
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
Love,
70
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
69
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
69
"Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material."
69
"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
69
"If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness."
68
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
68
"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
68
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
Time,
68
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
68
"The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government."
68
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
68
"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
68
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
68
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
67
"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
67
"When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared."
67
"I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original."
67
"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne."
67
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