One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.