No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.