Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.