"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”

“Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.”

“It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.”

“When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.”

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

Source : Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

“First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.”

Source : Liang Zhuge, Liu Ji (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.90, Shambhala Publications