Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned.

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.