Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart.

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.