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“As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.”
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“Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.”
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“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”
Source : David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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“Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive.”
Source : "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016. 
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“I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.”
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“They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.”
Source : "Times of London", May 11, 1992.
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“We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.”
Source : John Dalton, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1911). “Foundations of the Molecular Theory: Comprising Papers and Extracts”
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“How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”
Source : Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc
