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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Give up trying to make me give up

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

An idea is salvation by imagination

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

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