Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.