He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.