True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

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.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Don't talk. Kill it."That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.