Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.