You have no future when the past rules you.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.

One always finds time for what one likes.

To save all we must risk all.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.