“I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.”

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

Nowadays people don’t know how to handle it if all the ends aren’t tied up and they’re not told what to think in films. And if they’re challenged, they think it’s something wrong with the film.

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn’t all the water gush out when you get in?

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.