As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

Keep your wits about you, Killian O'Brien, for you'll be no good to anyone if your head lies apart from the rest of your body!

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

But how do we even get to the land of the dead?” I asked. “I mean…without dying.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.