Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.