It is the lot of man to suffer.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.'

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.

I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...