Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

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.

Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

I don't research anything.

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

In my quiet, I was working something out.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.