The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which miraculously it seems merge into a significant event.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

If conquerors be regarded as the engine drivers of History then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who less conspicuous to the travelers eye determine the direction of the journey.

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through mans history is the beating of war drums.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The most persistent sound, which reverberates through men's history, is the beating of war drums.

I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.

When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.

The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.

In terms of directing a feature, I'd want the story to be right - you know, it's a year of your life, and you have to be focused on one thing, so I want it to be a story that I really, really care about and will enjoy making.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

A crown golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Sometimes the biggest disasters arent noticed at all no ones around to write horror stories.

In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.

You think your friends have good taste in fashion until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.