"Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word."

“I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.”

Source : "'I haven't danced since 1973, not even at my own wedding': Len Goodman on life, love and Strictly" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2013.

“He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude...”

“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”

Source : "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”

“I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.”

“I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.”

“I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every time you perform Mix Tape you will feel like you're presenting someone with a very special gift. I've never come across a routine so natural and so strong. Use this and you will be the wonder worker they talk about long after you have left.”

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”