Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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!

Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

There are no fixed points in space.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.