Very few of us are what we seem.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.