It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.