If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Only you can decide how far you get to travel in life. Therefore, you definitely owe it to your future self to be courageous and ambitious enough to strive and thrive without limitations.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

An' I learned about women from 'er.

It all started with a badly timed bald joke!

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?