There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.