What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Each day I connect with my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier.

As long as there’s breath in You - PERSIST!

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

We're going to establish a procedure where people can leave the line, go outside, take care of themselves and the government's gonna pay.

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.