By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
That which costs little is less valued.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
