Every man's memory is his private literature.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
That which costs little is less valued.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
I am not now That which I have been.