For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

If you examine the Bible daily, you find the beauty of being.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

The public are not stupid.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.