I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.