Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

No matter how high you climb on the ladder of success, never forget those who helped you when things were very rough in your life.

I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy, ' like other parents take for granted.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.