All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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 such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I am not now That which I have been.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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

Be that self which one truly is.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.