"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,…Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking."

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."