Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Trust is won not given.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Your intensity increases your productivity

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom

Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!