To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.