Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Some people are incapable of judging others. Why? Because they are to busy judging their own insecurities

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.