It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.