You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

Beware of giggle grins

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it.