And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

The bastards murdered half my family.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.