Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!

Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.