"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future."

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."

"The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."