I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.