And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.

Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

Faith is the force of life.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.