Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

Awards don't really mean much.