Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

What you believe in makes you bold.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing along the way.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.