A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

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.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.