I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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

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

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

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

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.