You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.