Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.