If you are good, life is good.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.
I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.
