If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.