Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
Does science offer answers to all our questions? For the arrogant scientist, yes.
Seeing more and more crooks succeed one develops distaste for success, and begins to redefine it.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Doing ‘nothing’ is so damn difficult; we keep doing silly things instead!
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Some men love so as to seek approval of their goodness.
Every sacrifice is basically intelligent selfishness.
Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.
Have you ever seen idiots becoming ministers? But this revolutionary trick does work!