England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.

I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.