“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

The best way to write poetry, letting things come.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Tigers don’t like honey.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Don’t ask ‘Why’, ask instead, ‘Why not’.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.