The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

Failure is part of the process of success.

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.