I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.