I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

The great trues are too important to be new.