Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.

In spite of all - Be Happy.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it