... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

You're seventeen now. You can do...absolutely nothing you couldn't already

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.