Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Believe the best of everybody.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.