Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

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.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.