Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true, And whate'er you lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

We must become the change we want to see.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.

Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

They can because they think they can.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Your neighbour is the man who needs you.