Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

The monsters are in your own head

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.