He has not a single redeeming defect.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

You are in control only if you control yourself.

I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again