Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Doesn’t that feel safe: a whole world protected by $1 safety-switches.

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

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

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Activity is the enemy of investment returns.