One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Faith diminishes fears.

Wisdom begins in knowing the self.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.