Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.