Truth is more important than modesty

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!

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.