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

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I am not now That which I have been.