I could never hate anyone I knew.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

Always work on extending your territory and capacity

I don’t want to look. I’ve got to look.” Vance... "Vital Perception

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.