We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Give up trying to make me give up

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.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Freedom is from within.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.