The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Sometimes, we need to accept that life doesn’t always go the way we planned.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.