War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.