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….

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….

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 ….

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..

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

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

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life..

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others..

Everything has been something before..

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

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….

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..

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousan….

Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublishe….

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….