When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

Words have power.

I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.

...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.