I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

To build is to be robbed.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

All war is based on deception.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.