tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

A change of scenery can help everything.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.