Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours