"People live up to your expectations, not their potential."

“There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.”

“The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.”

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.”

“I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.”

“...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.”

“We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.”

Source : "Tea Time". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2010.

“The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.434