I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

I am a man of my word.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Christians are losers.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.