Great people have great egos

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.