It is only the 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.

Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself.

He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]