When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need 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?

Anyone who falls short of God’s grace, out of rage, can harm many.It our sacred duty to love, motivate and pray for one another, so we will all be under God’s grace.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

England? England is in London right?

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

He who is good is happy.