Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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.

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters?

What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.