I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.