A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

I was an emotional basket case.

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13.