We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Adversity is a good school.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.