Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

We're beginning to find out that many of the school shootings are side reactions to Prozac-like medications. That's a very big hidden factor.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.