The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.