Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to or you don't have inspiration it will come.

Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.