For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.