Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

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.

Life was sucked from me, not any life, my life. And so it goes…..

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

Put not your trust in princes.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

All things are symbols.

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.