It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.