He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Anger can be managed to becomeemotional content that raises power.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Start slow and taper off.