"The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey."

"I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity."

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."

"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to."

"It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think."

"If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all."

"Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."

"And the grasshopper shall be a burden."

"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day."

"While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know."

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."