Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Walk and learn from the people that inspire you to do great things

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved...

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.

Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.