Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9, damn they don’t teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity.

In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.