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

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.

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.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.

Join the army and see the next world.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.