In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

When we access ourselves wrongly, we are mistaken about our abilities

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.