Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

And all at Worcester but the honour lost.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames, And before her bows the wavelets dark Break into a thousand gems.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.