Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

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

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

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.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.