"Your integrity is more precious than your life."

“The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.”

“Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets”

“Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.”

“With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.”

“As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.”

“Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.”

“Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

“Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.”