Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

I was just an option.Blown easily to piecesand offered to the skyby the sweet laced painupon your lips.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.