But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Memory is all that matters in the end

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

My morals are important to me.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.