When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

She holds secretsthat would break spinesyet she carries them so well.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

And personally, I watched him [Khizr Khan]. I wish him the best of luck.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.