One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Freedom is from within.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Humility is attentive patience.

Boards don't hit back.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.