"sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it"

“Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now.”

“Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.”

“We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.”

“He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.”

“The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.”

“I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.”

Source : "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

“The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.”

“No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.152, Regent College Publishing