Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

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.

To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater.

Every good thing begins with one positive thought.

Nothing cheap without reason.

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

I know we only talked once-" "But it meant something to you." Our eyes met for only an instant. "It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.