If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.