I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?

Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

Some leaders lead from the front.

Let food be thy your medicine

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Keep your working power at its maximum.