No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces and I've been doing that from a very young age.
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Learn from me if not by my precepts then by my example how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.