I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what’s right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I love food.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

History is more or less bunk.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

History should be written as philosophy.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

In the real world, children love me.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.