You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A full boat. (referring to a full house in poker).

I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers.

But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.