Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]