The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Dare, will, keep silence.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.