Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

Dude, ” he said instead, “I’m flattered as hell.” And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldn’t see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.