no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.