But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.