Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers which I do not underestimate.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients but even to strangers.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Never floss with a stranger.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

But I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.