Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

Make friends not enemies. Compliment do not criticize. Like.

Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

I love doing what I do.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

It is never too late to learn.

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.