f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

I thought you're someone worth fighting for. But after all, you're not.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Nature streamlines the soul connectionwith the divine.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

The goal is not to be good at social media, the goal is to be good at business because of social media.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

What scares me is how easily it happened.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.