It may be those who do most, dream most.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

I will toil under sun for what I want.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I am not a collector of deserts!

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.