Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

The witch hunter could not date the witch.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause

Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.