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Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

Friend, you need to believe in something much bigger than yourself. You have to let go.

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

The first meaning of 'cognitive' for us is that observations of others are made phenomenologically: i.e., by attempting to take the role of the other, to see things from his or her conscious viewpoint.

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

No one has ever escaped from Guantanamo Bay. It is by far the most secure detention facility in the world.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

I cannot judge a country. I fall in love with the people and the place each time I visit a new place.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?