This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.

The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.