Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.