To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.