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.

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.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

I have no idea why anyone likes me! I am very polarizing. It's either absolutely love or absolutely can't-be-around-for-more-than-three-seconds.

I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

I really enjoy making breakfast and dinner. But breakfast is a good excuse to have some dessert before dinner.

Loyalty is a major force making for unity in any life even in the existence of a civilization.... It gives point and flavor most of all meaning to a life or a culture.

Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.