It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want

Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I love New York. I love working here.

The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.