"Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking."

“It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.”

Source : "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

“My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.”

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.562, Penguin

“A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.”

“True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”

“On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance. The creative evolution of his community and his own creative evolution must always be the two earnest purposes of the individual. Its own creative evolution and that of the individuals in its midst must always be the two earnest purposes of the community.”

Source : "Essays with a Purpose".

“The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.”

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”