I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Moonlight is sculpture.

A person preaches well that lives well.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A lie never lives to be old.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.