I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Conservation must become before recreation.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.

someday goals become never days of achievement

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.