Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

I can only strive for what is important

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I need them and they need me to need them

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.