The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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 try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.