What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

In our family business, the Edelman children must earn their way - there were and will be no promises without performance and leadership. That may lead to some skinned knees, but it is certainly the best way to learn life lessons.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

I believe equality in a relationship is very important, and for that, both partners should be equally capable to handle anything.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.