Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.