What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

History is more or less bunk.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I think the word rich is all relative.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.