You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

Dare, will, keep silence.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

All things are delicately interconnected.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.