Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Persistence is the pillar of success.

Almost doesn't count.

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.