Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

I was never my favourite subject.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

But the amazing thing about life, I’ve finally discovered, is that you really don’t learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Let’s face it: I want it all – just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.

There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can’t live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful – if anything, better even than I’d been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.