"I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists."

“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.”

“I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.”

“Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's not that we never do these things, it's that they are hardly constituative of who and what we are.”

“It is now, and in this world, that we must live.”

“Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!”

Source : O. S. Hawkins (2005). “Guidestones: ancient landmarks of authenticity for the 21st century church”

“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.

“I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».”

“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”