But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.

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This guy put the suck in success.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.