Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Good advertising is a dialog with people.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.