I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

I try to photograph thoughts.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!