It's impossible to love yourself unconditionally without frequently making some time to know yourself better.

Years don't mean anything, only what happens in them.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

Only a genius can play a fool.