To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.

I existed until I met you. Now I'm alive.

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.