“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”

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.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.

Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Don’t get upset with little problems because life is like a road and problems are like speed breakers, they save us from big accidents.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.