To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.