Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.

It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.