All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

The purpose of discovering your purpose is so that you can fulfill it.

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.Eating and crying.Crying and eating.

The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.

We should fight [mass immigration], we should stop it, we should be proud of who we are and define what we are not.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Life minus love equals zero.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.