Oh, comfortable cocoa!

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .