Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

Film lovers are sick people.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.