The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
Civilisation is a conspiracy.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.