It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

More die in flight than in battle.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Belief creates biology.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.