There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Give up trying to make me give up

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Nothing is black or white.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.