"...the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air."

"Persons who think there is no such thing as luck—good or bad—are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it."

"I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful."

"When one cultivates strong concentration by means of tranquility or insight meditation, the mind is no longer distracted by thoughts and other hindrances. Such pure concentration, continuously focused…"

"Now at the end, we come back to the beginning: to the situation of the world here and now, from which all understanding must start and to which it must return. In all existential thinking it is we our…"