It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

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.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

To get Game-Changing results, start focusing on Game-Changing thoughts.

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.