Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
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.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
