There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.