We may divide characters into flat and round.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Judging people does not help them.