I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.