"There can be no greater honor to a parent than to have a child who is greater."

"People revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like…"

"Groups are even stupider than individuals — and yet by keeping so many fools engaged in pretending to be intelligent,…"

"When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t y…"

"A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods…"

"Even if the vast majority of them are wrong, even if ninety-nine of every hundred is stupid and wrong, out of ten tho…"

"If you tell what you know, everybody is wiser. If you keep a secret, than everyone is a fool."

"You're only so sure you're right because they're so sure you're wrong."

"When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?"

"He had the decency to be appalled by his own brutality."