Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.

I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'

There are a million good tunes.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.