If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.

Christopher Hitchens

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

Benny Bellamacina

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Jacqueline Carey

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Christopher Hitchens

I constantly look up words and meanings in search of the perfect variable, method, and class names.

David Heinemeier Hansson

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Omar Bongo