There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.