At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Give as few orders as possible, " his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

I just want to get away from me.

there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I do remember being young.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.