I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

Reality is only just a word.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.