If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Technology changes nothing.

I know everyone is busy in life and for them to take out the time to still think about me and send me a card or a letter, that really meant the world to me. I'm grateful for that.