I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.