My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.