That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

We would never comment on private correspondence.

I'd rather go by bus.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Theres nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and in the literal sense it often is but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

Forests are the worlds air conditioning systemthe lungs of the planetand we are on the verge of switching it off.

I learned the way a monkey learns by watching its parents.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

As president, my father will change the labor laws put in place when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. He will make childcare affordable and accessible to all. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right alongside of him.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

We will ensure Arizona continues to grow jobs, not destroy them.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.