“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”

“‎The most important days in your life are the day you were born........and the day you find out why.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Mrs Kerslake:" but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-?"Simon Kerslake: "Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term”

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”

“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”