The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.

Step up to red alert."Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf

My poems - they sprang from the depths of my being.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.