If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

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.

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

I get bored in Hollywood.