Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.