And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,  for reasones unknow to me.

Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

But we're dying here.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

I went to college for about a year in California.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.