I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.