Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

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.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.