When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and cloudsand chew on mountainsknowing they are sweet bones!When no one is lookingand I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

You can never, never have too many books

Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

Ridiculous, " he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.