"When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.”

“Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.”

“Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.”

“If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.”

“Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.”

“When my title was taken away boxing died.”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.”

“Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.”