One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

See the gift that change delivers.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.