Adventure must start with running away from home.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Dare, will, keep silence.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.

Many people become prosperous only to realize the illusion that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement.

Alas! Alas!When in the skies there are no limitsonly the forceful perseverance of the mind stripping through cloudsand creating the ever so beautiful shades of abundant success.

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.