The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.