Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on.

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.