I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
Always take an emergency leisurely.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; I could them over, every one apart, My rosary, my rosary.