Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

It is always great to get an award - particularly when it talks about a lifetime achievement, ... There's something about starting and keeping going, rather than a one-off spike.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.