The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

The more you read the gospel, the more you understand God.

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.