It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

Music is what feelings sound like out loud.

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.