Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

A person preaches well that lives well.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.