High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience is when it comes in the middle.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

People become artists out of despair.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.