Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

No ruby slippers here, just a lot of supernatural jackassess.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.