The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Nourish your Nature. Be who you are meant to be.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

I really enjoy being an actor!