“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”

“Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure”

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.”

“Writing is a weapon and it's more powerful than a fist could ever be.”

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

“Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.”