The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
