If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

It's okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.