The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

Oh my God, I sweat so much! You have to keep deodorant in your purse and use those deodorising wipes that cool you off a bit.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.