The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

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.

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

I love color. I'm enjoying trying all different shades. Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.