It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.