I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!