We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

A wounded dear leaps the highest

Prayer is better than pills.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.