1)”I don’t think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense – but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.”
2)”Real inner strength is virtue of those who have armed themselves with power of courage, fighting spirit and self promise not to give up.”
3)”Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.”
1)”I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”
2)”The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit”
3)”To change and to change for the better are two different things.”
1)”Death always comes too early or too late.”
2)”Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
3)”Age is a bad traveling companion.”
1)”Death always comes too early or too late.”
2)”A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.”
3)”Hope for the best but prepare for the worst”
1)”Hope for the best but prepare for the worst”
2)”You may poke a man’s fire after you’ve known him for seven years.”
3)”Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
1)”Germany’s Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain’s David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France’s leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.”
2)”I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.”
3)”So I rang up British Telecom, I said ‘I want to report a nuisance caller’, he said ‘Not you again’.”