The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.