We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%