Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.