It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

Achieving great things through training, tenacity & time doesn't make someone vain. It lessens vanity! Therefore, I have one question: is @realDonaldTrump vain?

I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.