Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.