There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Sunlight is painting.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.