"Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me."

"Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed."

"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."

"Truth comes to us mediated by human love."

"He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found."

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."

"It is a unyielding truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests."