“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

One swallow does not make a summer.

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.

No feeling is final.