Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away read more

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may read more

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar read more

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.