Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.