Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

We live too long for one marriage.

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.