Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
I'm afraid of death. I'm afraid of planes, cars. Having ascended to the ship, the first thing I look for is the lifeline.
Sooner or later I'll do what I've promised. Sooner or later all my dreams will come true.
`When asked,"How do you write ?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.'
"Hear what little Red-Eye saith: "Nag, come up and dance with death!"
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
If my critics saw me walking over the thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.