Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.