The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

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.

The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.

And the roads called us to take the walk.

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.

Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

The music is not the truth.

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.