I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work

If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.

You know how your charger for your phone? It's like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind