If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.