If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

We do not see with our eyes, but through them.

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.