Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Friends are family you choose.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

We're all a little tired.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes