What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.