The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.