Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.