Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Positive Thinking does not mean that you never fail, It simply means that you have the courage to try again until you succeed.

We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.