It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.