Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

I trust you with my life

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)