It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

People come and go.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

One Sallow does not make Summer.

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.