Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Peace is not only the goal, it is the game itself.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

That is simply stunning.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.