The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.