A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different, ' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

The white flower of a blameless life.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.