Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.

There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Collaboration is a key [to success]. It really is.

Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.