Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.