Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

My car is so bad, I hit poles I'm not kidding I hit things all the times, I hit bushes it's really bad.

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.