No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.