Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Your past does not equal your future.

A child miseducated is a child lost.