If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.