He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open