November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Go write win!

I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.