When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)

When you're one with being you're one with god.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

You'll never see the hacienda. It doesn't exist. The hacienda must be built.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.