I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

I'd stop the world from spinning for you

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.