But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.

Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

I'm usually always thinking about the cons.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.