A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

You can get real wacky on edibles.

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.