Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Dare to be naive.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.