Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.