Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Marriage is not a Current Account but a Savings Account, you got to be Patient enough

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I've had.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.