"I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older."

“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”

“The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.”

Source : "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

“A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.”

“Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.125, Octagon Press Ltd

“I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said 'I've stopped buying the New York Times.' Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Bernie Goldberg". Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

“If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.”

Source : Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

“An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.”

“Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.”