You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Fruitfulness is impossible without action.

He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

My life is a glorious adventure.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.