I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Boy those French: they have a different word for everything!

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

The second one the joint Truth and Friendship Commission which we started now with Indonesia that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

It may be a cold clammy thing to say but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.