I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

It’s funny how when you say “yes” to something (like the man of your dreams), you don’t think about the fact that you are also saying “no” to something else.

The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding

We are going to stop radical Islamic terrorism in America. Hillary Clinton won't even mention the words, and neither will President Obama. So I just want to tell you, she wants open borders.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.