To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

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.

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

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.

Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

You are not a note in a symphony

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

There's no better feeling than making somebody smile.

Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.