"great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life."

“But you I never understood,      Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon      Ages ago in waters cold.”

“You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.”

“Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.”

“There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.”

“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.”

“India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up all kinds of complicated barriers for us. I remember once having to go meet with the foreign ministry official and say 'You know look I have a real problem here. Is this person really important to you?' And I just thought 'My God.' You know my wife and I have been together since college. You know it's 20 years.”

“In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.”

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

Source : "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.