I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

In the past year I’ve learned that love can make you do crazy, silly, stupid, ridiculous things. And the fact that one person can make you feel this way and do those things is amazing to me.

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

I could swear I’d just swallowed the sun.

Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.