Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Smoky knickers. Always said you were hot stuff, ” he said. I rolled my eyes and shook my head at the same time. It made me so dizzy that I almost fell over. Men.

Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.