God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

I think it must be one of those things where no one’s wrong and everybody loses.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.