There is plenty of work for love to do.

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?

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

To have more, you must first be more.