But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.