When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

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.

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

[Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.

The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.