When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

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.

If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

I try not to fake anything.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

I didn't say the things I said.