The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

The best advice anyone has ever given me, was to never take advice from anyone.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

I guess emotion really isn't necessary for me to go out and perform well.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.