Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.

Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.

To achieve a higher consciousness, fill your heart with love and forget to judge, compete, or compare.

I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.

And that, said John, is that.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.