If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

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.

Give up trying to make me give up

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.