Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.

You can't break up what was never together. But my heart didn't get that memo.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.