Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.