Good writing is essentially rewriting.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

Government is the right disposition of things.

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.