More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Having priorities is essential. So is having them in the right order.

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.