I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections. Cause this is the only life I have.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

I am only about winning and getting better.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.