Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.