"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

“When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.”

“There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.”

“The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.”

“The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you,”

“If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.”

“I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.”

“Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.”

“At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.”

Source : Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK