“The Loch Ness monster doesn’t exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.”

To lose a son under those circumstances – a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I’ve ever heard.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can’t be changed..And, forget the present because I didn’t get you one.

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

Don’t be afraid mama, the line between your baby and his is very thin, one might even say it doesn’t exist.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.