“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.”

“If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.”

“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.”

“Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning”

“Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.”

“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot be reached without sound practice and good method.”

“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so.”