Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Revenge is often compared to full course dinner meal best served bitter cold, it is the weakest and poorest excuse for any man or woman to use to hurt another because of there own grief

I’d rather be known as a freak than a science project.

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.