The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.