'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

When all hope is lost, remember that light can be found even in the deepest of oceans.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

Discover what you love to do the most, and strengthen it.

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Never lie in writing.