It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

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.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ.