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“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves”
Source : "Now we can all play happy 'framilies'" by Nicole Mowbray, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006. 
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“My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.”
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“I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.”
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“There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.”
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“Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.”
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“While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.”
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“I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.”
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“The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... they have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.”
Source : "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.
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“I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.”
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“I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax”
Source : "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)". Debate in the House of Commons (Column 654), publications.parliament.uk. July 23, 1993.
