I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Nothing wrong with believing good things will happen.And if it doesn't, there's always whiskey.

If something doesn’t work, try something different. Don’t go ball up, cry in a corner, and say, “Woe is me.” Kick yourself in the pants and force yourself to get on to the next alternative.

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch. (on Arsenal)

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Most of us get our history through story.