Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

My valentine is always my dad.

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.