Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.