“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.

There is no solution; seek it lovingly.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.