Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Do you really think it's behaving like a Christian to be glad when you see death and ruin falling on your fellow men? Is that what Christ taught us?

The only time someone fails in life is when they fail to try at all

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.