Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

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.

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

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.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

A lie never lives to be old.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.