Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

You have the power to turn your negatives into positives. - Author Mahogany Law

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.