People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

I love being in the gym.