All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The other man's arse is always cleaner!

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.