When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.

Blind eyes cannot read.

I don't do anything for the money.

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.