I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

If he didn't want his opinion, why did he ask for it?

Knowledge increases responsibility.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

What I do is me, for that I came.

My fans aren't obsessed. They're just incredible and devoted.

The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.