"In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world."

“I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing”

“Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.”

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.”

“Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'”

Source : Charlton Heston (2000). “To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

“Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. “I put him at the top of the list.”

“The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.”

“If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.”

“Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.”

Source : "Practice makes perfect?". "All in the Mind", www.abc.net.au. November 5, 2011.