“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”

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.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

If you ever forget your worth just ask me. I’ll remind you.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

The answer is you. I forget the question.

You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.

People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn’t see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There’s always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people’s vote.

My skin will continue to carry your memories, even if my mind wants to forget.