There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Freedom is from within.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

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

Sunlight is painting.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.