I am a part of all whom I have met.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

I am a great believer in research and innovation.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.