Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Having talent is fantastic. Having confidence is even more important.