I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.