A difficulty for every solution.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

Peace—[the ability] to sleep in the storm!

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.