Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

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.

Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.