The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

I nurture daily wellness.

I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.