"The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit."

“In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.”

“I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.”

“There is no limit to your creative power.”

“The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.”

Source : Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.

“This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.”

“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”

“I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.”

“The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.”