To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.