My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

Your healing begins with a step of faith in the Great Physician, Jesus Christ.

If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

We're all in this together if we're in it at all.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Precedent goes in support of justice.