People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.

The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.