All I ever wanted to be was a professor in Basel, but since someone had to create the world, and no one else was willing to do it, I decided to become God instead.
If you tell a Thai man that his country is economicallly backward, he will listen attentively to you. If you tell him his wife is a *****, he will drink a toast with you. But if you insult the King or the Sangha, it will be time to throw down.
Reginald: Friar Thomas, take up your pen and write.
St. Thomas Aquinas: Reginald, I cannot. Everything I have written seems to me as straw compared to what I have seen and what God has revealed to me. I shall write no more.