"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."

"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them."

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."