Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

A heart isn't some revolving door where a bunch of people can go in and out.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.