It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

I just don't conform very well.