But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes

If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.