We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.