The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

There's this huge number of desperate people.