Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.