The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

When you're in bad mood, you find jerk on anywhere.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers