There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

On life's stage for your real life play, always choose the best, most excellent actors for top success.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

My normal life is like being on holiday.