The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.