Smoking is suicide by instalments.

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

There's a whole world all around more interesting, wonderful, terrifying, mysterious, amazing than any novel ever written. Pay attention. Take a chance. Dare life.

It's only amatter of time, and God's timming never second best

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.