When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.