“However British you may be, I am more British still.”

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.

His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.