I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

When I said that Mercy stoodWithin the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with clawsAnd bloody swift-dispatching jaws.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.