Books crowbar the world open for you.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor

Your gift will unlock doors that you prayed for God to open.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.