Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

I always try to travel light.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.