Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

speed is the curse of the age.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Being patted is what it is all about.

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.