Beware of men bearing flowers.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.