"As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'"

“The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.”

“In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.”

“We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.”

“I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.”

“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”

“Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.”

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”

“Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.30, Penguin