the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.