Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind?

That you are misserable and full demons and angry don't make the others like you... It's your problem, as for me I want to continue to be positive!

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.

I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

Man is a being in search of meaning.

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.