Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

We are the creators of our universe.