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

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

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

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

From ashes I cameTo ashes, I'll return.But tonight I'm contentTo sit here and burn.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.