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

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.

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 one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Having played in Boston will help me a ton moving to New York.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.