Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I am not now That which I have been.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Boards don't hit back.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.