If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same.

Now that we are born, let us live in a trance.

Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.