"It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out."

"You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."

"I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me."

"I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

"It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back."

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

"Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity."

"And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane."

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

"But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h"

"We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; / But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: `It's clever, but is it Art?'"

"The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad."

"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."

"The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!"

"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."

"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you."