Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness, " Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

All your lies became truth of my life!

Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Turn your 'problems' into 'challenges' and you will suddenly see results in a more positive light.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.