I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.

How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.