That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

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.

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.