A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.