To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Energy never dies. It just transforms.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.