Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

If you don't believe something can be done, at least don't stand in the way of someone else doing it!

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

All beauty contains darkness.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.