It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.

To be alive──is Power.

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Look at your watch now. You're still a super hot female.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.