Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

Change is possible. You must want it enough for the change to take place.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

I class myself as a manual laborer.