Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

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.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

A good dog never dies.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

I don't watch television.