What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

For many things were shown, Recorded and written down.But what is God to do, When His Word you do renounce?

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

We're always looking for something.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.