We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.