Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

The Denver Broncos are all child molesters

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.