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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Common sense is not so common.

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

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

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.