Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.