Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.