Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.