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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.