Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections the way arguments are made even cruder.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

Ive never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means youre not seeing an end to things.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Find the good. Its all around you. Find it showcase it and youll start believing in it.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called fun.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.