Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

life is a series of sweet coincidences

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.

You want freedom and they give you chicken korma.

Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.

The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.