According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.