Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.

His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

It is. But not as hard as farce.

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.