"I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time."

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.209, Algonquin Books

“Genius points the way, talent takes it.”

“Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

“My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.”

“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

“Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.”

“There are trade-offs in everything we do in life, and I have accepted that if I would like to be principled - and just principled - my best call would be to sit at home and shut up, because nothing I preached would be connectable to the practice.”

“Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.”