Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

We learn by rearranging what we know.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.