“There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”

“The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

“Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”

“Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.”

“Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”

“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch....”

“We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!”

“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will h...”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future i...”

“Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.”

“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people...”