You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.