A canter is the cure for all evil.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

Rule 1: The actions of confidence come first

He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home.

My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You're like a fart in the bathtub. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair