Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Named Harris, " Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.""Fortunate fellow, " Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.

You are part of our Great British family.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.