Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

I have not failed. I have just found 10, 000 ways it will NOT work.

Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

The best way to determine a person’s character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.

It's a weight problem isn't it; you can't wait for lunch.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?