She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this.

I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.