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.

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.

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!

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

Each conflict is self conflict.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.