The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

Europe is a state with several provinces

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.