The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.