Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Moonlight is sculpture.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.