There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together

Your thoughts are your wand. Trust what you think and it will happen.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

I never thought about extending the promotions. Maybe I've matured but I feel that a shorter and more powerful promotion is better.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.