Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

The day will bring hope for me, " said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say, " said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

What we enjoy we enjoy, dispute is useless. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.