War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.