IVAN: There is no mystery, you know. All that Magic is is God's love manifest in the world.

from "Conversations with Ivan Shapiro"

When it becomes imperative to deny an unpalatable or dangerous truth, the best and easiest way to do so is not by attacking it - which would only entrench it more deeply and make it even more likely to be believed - but to discredit the teller of that truth, and so dismiss it unchallenged.


MC

Knowing uncertainty is everywhere makes us bolder.

from "Conversations with Ivan Shapiro"

History is a interlocking web of ongoing events, bringing us to the present as we perceive it.
What happened 400 years ago has repercussions NOW, and the ripples still travel; move past us
and onward into the future.

from "Conversations with Ivan Shapiro"

You can bend numbers any which way, and statistics are slaves to every liar.

MC

A lot of lies can be "proved " true, but truths can never be disproved.

MC

The friends you have are the truest mirror of the person you are.

From "Conversations with Ivan Shapiro"