The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Where is the good in goodbye?

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.

I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.