I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

Freedom is from within.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Boards don't hit back.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Give up trying to make me give up

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.