Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

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.

Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

It is a world of words that creates a world of things.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.