I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I'm trained as a teacher that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

You find out more of the type of person someone is when they are around someone in need

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember, yielding us fainter fragrance.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I've been right more than I've been wrong.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.