Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

The power of waiting is gracious.

Sweets to the sweet farewell!

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

Each of your excursions is balanced by the strengthening of the tonal.

God and posterity will show me more favour

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened