True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

The harder it gets, the closer you are.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.