She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
Mere parsimony is not economy.Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
“To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.”
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
I wish to marry her . . . but she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.
Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I say to mankind, be not curious about god. for I, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - I hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright in the forests of the night.”
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.