Roald Dahl

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.