Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise.
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.