A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.