I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.