Effective action is always unjust.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.