Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

He can run, but he can't hide.

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.