Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.