Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about acceptin….

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with ….

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea..

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society..

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy t….

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people….

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place..

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you ha….

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists..

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of child….

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters..

And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their o….

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think an….

They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should loo….

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved..

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved..

Everything has been something before..

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well..

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow..

There is room in history for all of us..

There is plenty of work for love to do..