Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Give the historians something to write about.

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

In oratory the will must predominate.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

I was never less alone than when by myself.