If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.