Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Always put your heart into and show commitment in whatever you do

Don't allow the fear of falling stop you from pursuing your dream. Prepare. Practice. Pray. Jump! It's through the fall that you'll realize you can to fly.

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

One boy's a boy two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

The beginnings of all things are small.

If I gave you any thought I probably would.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.