You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!