But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.