Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The day of individual happiness has passed
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
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.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
I am not now That which I have been.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.