Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Evaluate and assess your life on a daily

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat.

Why surround yourself with people who constantly pull you back, when you could be with those who would push you forward to the land of abundance?

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.