Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.