The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.

Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open.

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

restrictions create frustrations!

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.