"Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."

"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."

"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death."

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."