At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone.

Science leads you to killing people.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love