It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

The mirror is a good place to start judging.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.