As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.“Sometime, ” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

Abort the thought, save the baby

What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.

When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

It takes years to readjust dynamics and relationships, and to overnight create the new dynamic, I was surprised by how challenging that was for me personally.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.