What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

Let your players know that you love them.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

Sometimes I can't believe half of the love that I get.