We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.