Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at 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.

My books are water

Memories don't need logic.

We always seek to find the enemy when in reality, the enemy is really us".

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.