Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

I don’t argue with fools

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.